UNITED NATIONS, March 28 (Reuters) - United Nations chief
Antonio Guterres has appointed former South Carolina Governor
David Beasley to run the Rome-based World Food Programme (WFP),
at a time when U.S. President Donald Trump has proposed slashing
funding for the world body and its agencies.

Beasley will replace another American, Etharin Cousin, who
has been the WFP executive director since 2012. Washington was
the top contributor to WFP in 2016 with $2 billion, a third of
the agency's budget.

WASHINGTON, March 28 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump
signed an executive order on Tuesday to undo a slew of Obama-era
climate change regulations that his administration says is
hobbling oil drillers and coal miners, a move environmental
groups have vowed to take to court.

BUENOS AIRES, March 28 (Reuters) - The lack of a rail system
for hauling grains from Argentina's next farm frontier in the
far north is costing the country millions of tonnes of soy, corn
and wheat production every year, prodding the government to
jump-start infrastructure projects.

WASHINGTON, March 28 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump
signed an executive order on Tuesday to scrap Obama-era climate
change regulations that his administration says are hindering
oil drillers and coal miners.

"My administration is putting an end to the war on coal,"
Trump said before signing the decree. "With today's executive
action I am taking historic steps to lift the restrictions on
American energy, to reverse government intrusion and to cancel
job-killing regulations."
(Reporting by Jeff Mason; Writing by Washington Newsroom;
Editing by Eric Walsh)

BRASÍLIA, March 28 (Reuters) - Hong Kong said on Tuesday it
has lifted a ban on the import of Brazilian meat, removing one
of the last blanket bans by a major importer, but strong words
from an EU commissioner visiting Brazil suggests the scandal
over health standards is not over yet.

NEW DELHI, March 28 (Reuters) - Monsanto lost a
legal battle with one of India's biggest seed producers over a
contract dispute on Tuesday, and was ordered to restore a
licensing agreement and cut royalty charges.

The U.S. company's joint venture Mahyco Monsanto Biotech
(MMB) took Hyderabad-based Nuziveedu Seeds Ltd to court in 2015,
claiming patent infringements and accusing the Indian company of
continuing to use Monsanto's technology after MMB had cancelled
its licensing contract.

LAUSANNE, March 28 (Reuters) - Glencore does not
see further consolidation in agricultural commodities as
straightforward and views a U.S. acquisition as less crucial
than in the past, the group's agriculture chief said on Tuesday.

The diversified trading and mining group had pointed to the
possibility of making bolt-on acquisitions after posting
improved results for 2016 and there has been regular speculation
that it was looking at the U.S. grain sector because of its
limited presence there.

BRASÍLIA, March 28 (Reuters) - Hong Kong said on Tuesday it
has lifted a ban on the import of Brazilian meat, removing one
of the last blanket bans by a major importer less than two weeks
into a scandal over health standards in the sector.

Following the announcement on March 17 of a federal police
investigation into alleged bribery of health inspectors in the
meat processing industry, Brazil's government moved to block
exports from the 21 plants targeted in the probe.

BURAO, Somalia, March 28 (Reuters) - In a makeshift camp
beside a disused airfield in the breakaway Somali region of
Somaliland, 32-year old Nima Mohamed sits next to an open wood
fire, boiling a kettle of black tea.

Unless aid groups bring them food and water, the tea is the
only meal of the day for her three sons and three daughters who
lie nearby in a home made of old bed sheets.

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